1870s

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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Tenacity Patience Persistence Perseverance

Speaker

T.H. Huxley

Source

On Medical Education

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Learning from mistakes Failure

Speaker

T.H. Huxley

Source

On Medical Education

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Becoming a father isn't difficult,
But it's very difficult to be a father.

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Topic

Fatherhood Parenting

Author

Wilhelm Busch

Source

Julchen

Medium

Poem

Language

German

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Busch, Wilhelm. Julchen. Munich: Bassermann, 1877.

No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Topic

Battle plans Preparation War

Author

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Language

German

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Von Moltke, Helmuth. "Uber Strategie." Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften. Vol. 13, Berlin: Mittler, 1891.

Current Citation

Von Moltke, Helmuth. "Plan of Operations: (1871-81)." Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings, translated by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell. Presidio Press, 1995.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

Walter Pater

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Topic

Judging the past Intellectual history

Author

Walter Pater

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pater, Walter. "Pico Della Mirandola." Studies in the History of the Renaissance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1873.

Current Citation

Pater, Walter. "Pico Della Mirandola." Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 2010.

I find no hint throughout the Universe
Of good or ill, of blessing or of curse;
I find alone Necessity Supreme.

James Thomson

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Topic

Nature of the universe The universe

Author

James Thomson

Source

The City of Dreadful Night

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Thomson, James. "The City of Dreadful Night." The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880, st. 14. Originally published in the National Reformer, 1874.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Fors Clavigera

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Topic

Purpose of government

Author

John Ruskin

Source

Fors Clavigera

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Letter the Sixty-Ninth." Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. London: Hazell, Watson & Viney/Kent: George Allen, 1 Sept. 1876.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. Fors Clavigera IV-VI. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 28, Cambridge University Press, 2010, letter 67.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Topic

Farming

Author

Charles Dudley Warner

Source

My Summer in a Garden

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warner, Charles Dudley. "Preliminary." My Summer in a Garden. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1870.

The opinion seems to have got abroad, that, in a few years, all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.

James Clerk Maxwell

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Topic

Laws of physics

Speaker

James Clerk Maxwell

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Maxwell, James Clerk. Inaugural address as Cavendish professor. Oct. 1871, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.... When all other friends desert, he remains.

George Graham Vest

Eulogy of the Dog

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Topic

Dogs Man and animals

Speaker

George Graham Vest

Source

Eulogy of the Dog

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Vest, George Graham. "The Eulogy of the Dog." The Old Drum Case. Hornsby v. Burden, 23 Sept. 1870.

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.

Lord Salisbury

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Topic

Experts

Author

Lord Salisbury

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Lord Salisbury. Letter to Lord Lytton. 15 June 1877.

Conversation... Is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all.

Guy de Maupassant

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Topic

Conversation

Author

Guy de Maupassant

Source

On the Water

Medium

Short story

Statement Type

Definition

Language

French

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Maupassant, Guy De. Sur l'Eau [Afloat]. Paris: Libraire Ollendorff, 1888.

Current Citation

Maupassant, Guy De. Afloat, translated by Douglas Parmée. NYRB Classics, 2008.

The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and means that should render him unfit to go there.

Mark Twain

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

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Topic

Venality of politicians Political corruption Corruption American politics Politics

Speaker

Philip Sterling

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873, ch. 50.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 50.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Babies Parenting

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Letters of Mark Twain

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Letter to Annie Moffett Webster. 1 Sept. 1876.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic

Marriage Men and women

Author

Susan B. Anthony

Source

Social Purity

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Anthony, Susan B. "Social Purity." Dime lecture course. 14 Mar. 1875, Grand Opera House, Chicago, IL, USA.

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lothair

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Topic

Happiness Taking action

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Lothair

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Lothair. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870, ch. 79.

It is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.

W.S. Gilbert

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Topic

Pirates

Speaker

The Pirate King

Author

W.S. Gilbert

Source

Pirates of Penzance

Medium

Opera

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Gilbert, William Schwenck. The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 31 Dec. 1879, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City, NY, USA. act. 1.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Topic

Laws of physics Natural law Law

Speaker

Captain Nemo

Author

Jules Verne

Source

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Verne, Jules. "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]." Magasin d'éducation et de récréation, Mar. 1869 - Jun. 1870. Serial.

Current Citation

Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, edited and translated by David Coward. Penguin Classics, 2017.

Truly, I think I should go mad if it weren't for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Topic

Music

Author

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Source

Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Medium

Letter

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illyich. Letter to Nadezhda von Meck. c. 23 Nov. 1877.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Henry James

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Topic

America and Europe

Author

Henry James

Source

Letters of Henry James

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

James, Henry. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton. 4 Feb. 1872.

Current Citation

James, Henry. Henry James: A Life in Letters, edited by Philip Horne. Penguin Classics, 2001.